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Perpignan

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Occitanie, France
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About Perpignan

Perpignan is the prefecture of the Pyrenees-Orientales department in Southwest France. Perpignan was the capital of the previous territory and County of Roussillon and mainland capital of the kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th hundreds of years. In 2013 Perpignan had 118,238 occupants in the collective appropriate. The metropolitan territory had a complete populace of 305,837 out of 2010. Perpignan is situated in the focal point of the Roussillon plain, 13 km west of the mediterranean coast. It is the southernmost of the urban areas of metropolitan France. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was started in 1324 and completed in 1509.

The 13th century Palace of the kings of Majorca sits on the high citadel, surrounded by bulwarks, strengthened for Louis XI and Charles V, which were refreshed in the 17th century by Louis XIV's military designer Vauban. The dividers encompassing the town, which had been designed by Vauban, were bulldozed in 1904 to oblige urban development. The primary city entryway, the Castillet is a little fortification worked in the 14th century, which has been saved. It had additionally been utilized as a jail until the finish of the 19th century.

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